Status Quo - Caroline (Live Aid 1985) 

Opening with Status Quo performing Rockin all over the World was an absolute genius move, then did a great version of Caroline. Set the mood perfectly.

No other band could have opened Live Aid. Totally perfect song selection and laid back performance. Just wonderful. Thank you lads....

what a way to get 100,000+ in the mood for the rest of the day..hats off to Bob Geldof

Someone else getting goosebumps through the whole intro of the song?

I was 21 watching this on live TV in 1985. The day when rock music stood shoulder to shoulder to help save starving Africans who had probably never heard their music but desperately needed their help. I remember their Royal Highnesses Prince Charles and Princess Diana arriving at Wembley Stadium and Quo kicking it all off. The show was especially famous for the brilliance that was Freddie Mercury, as well as that funny moment when Phil Collins hit a duff note on the piano and carried on with a smile on his face. Other highlights included Sade sounding amazing and Spandau Ballet playing a brilliant set with Tony Hadley in a full length leather coat in blazing heat. Well done Sir Bob Geldof. RIP Diana, Freddie and Rick.

Up there with the best UK bands of the last 50 years.

Opening for a world wide concert, then hitting it right outa the ball park! Took some guts to open for the biggest concert ever. I believe Quo just filled the following acts with so much confidence it made the day.

I would give anything to be there! Music doesn't exist like this anymore

Great choice for the opening, just makes me smile. I wasn't a Quo fan, I was after this

If you never saw this band live you really missed a great show. The whole place would be rocking from first note to the last.

Rest In Peace to the bassist Alan Lancaster passing today in Sydney Australia aged 72, - 26.09.2021

Thanks Dad that you show me this band !! Rock and Roll all over the time ! QUO for EVER

That picture quality is remarkable really... Just under 40 years old. ..

The only band to open live aid . perfect

When you say Status Quo, you say guitars. But hear that piano hitting every note out there.

Happy Birthday today(May 29) to Francis Rossi. Cheers! 🥨

Dad is a Status and Queen fan, I grew up with these songs. And now I have become a really big fan of the 70:s and 80:s music.

Many people think, that Status Quo aren't that talented 'cause their songs are quite simple ("three chord songs"), but Rick was one of the best Rhythm Guitar Players of the country (Great Britain). Francis Rossi also had his unique skills, especially when they played their guitar soli. I saw them live eleven times 🤘🏻🙌🏼

I was on the field at JFK in Phila. It was the most amazing concert ever! We rocked all day from the pre-show acts to Status Quo to the very final note. The most amazing concert I've ever attended (and I worked in radio in the US - there were many, many). I'm blessed to be a part of the audience! Thank you to my mum who recorded the audio from WYSP-FM in Phila all day so I had a copy to replay over and over!!! Sir Geldof, you are a saint among men. TY Bob Geldof as well.

Ich bin mit Status groß geworden und liebe ihre Musik bis heute bin noch 66 Jahre jung !!

The Worlds most polished pub band, absolute class!!!! Saw them live 7 times, always brilliant!

They smashed it out of Wembley Stadium. Great stuff.

Sat on the living room floor as a 16 year old lad, 34 years later still a fan. 👍

The greatest warm up act in the world, Quo set the bar for Live Aid and with very few exceptions kicked off a series of stellar performances that day.

I went to high school with Francis Rossi's daughter. She inherited his talent, she has a band of her own called The North and she has a fantastic voice!

Geldof knew what he was doing asking these guys to open the show. Best live band I ever saw, and with the exception of LedZep I have seen them all. Quo in the 70's would rock anyone off the stage.

One of the best live rock bands of all time, together with the likes of Queen & Thin Lizzy...

The only band back in the 70s to turn their backs to the crowd and surviving it. Folks even thriving by it. Get that!

Brilliant! Absolutely love this Alan Lancaster will be missed RIP - Jimmy x

My mother went into labor with me at this concert and she had to leave early she never forgave me for it and honestly I don’t blame her 😂

I was fortunate to see Status Quo live during the 80s Amazing!!

Que GRAAAAANDES que SIGUEN SIENDO LOS QUO!!!!!!!!!!! Gracias por tanto rocanroll (abrazo desde Argentina)

They rocked the house

I´m proud that my 9year old granddaughter knows these songs ! Just live them!

This is ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!!

Absolutely fantastic I am so glad I saw them live twice RIP Rick

I saw quo at Sun city in 1987 .I will treasure that moment for the rest of my life.what a show. if they got more exposure in the USA they would definitely made it there .great band.R.I.P. Rick and Alan.

I was born in 1994 and I feel like I lost out on this 😪 I love the 80s era

Loved Quo opening - Saw them live - knew every song and I've never rocked so much. Perfect opening song too

sat next to Rick on a flight home from holland once, great guy

The Number One Rock and Roll band in the land.....

I neve understood why these guys never made an impact in the United States. I would have gone to their concerts and bought their albums. I just didn't know they existed until right before Rick Parfitt died.One of the best boogie-woogie bands!

I was there, HUGE Quo fan, Queen fan, literally died and went to heaven that day😍😍😍😍

My son has a friend who met them many times in yesteryear,and told they are really genuine great guys.

So glad I got to see the frantic four few years ago when they reformed. What a night that was and one I will never forget.

Rest In Peace and thank you Alan Lancaster.

Not one cell phone in sight, happy days.

Playing great music Status Quo legends are never forgotten🙂 🤘 👍

Andy Bown was awesome across this three song set, really got it and played pure melody. Smart dude

This is Rock , 💙 Status Quo

Best performance that day.

Fabulous music who’s listening in 2020

Best performance at live aid.

I saw them a few times in the70s, now i m 64 and saw a lot of bands until now, but i still remember the feeling in their concerts. at most by Roll over lay down.

36 years from Argentina🇦🇷🇦🇷

one of the greatest riffs of all time but doesnt get mentioned much

Nowadays its choreography, back then it was trying not to stumble over your bandmates guitar cable.

Yo vivía en Londres en 1988. Que tiempos aquellos!

I have NEVER seen a group that are so happy playing... Love them allways

Real honest music that makes happy and tapping you're feet

This is my first time hearing this… I feel like I’m losing my virginity all over again… Incredible… Simply… Incredible.

Aways loved status quo since I was a kid ❤

Sheer Madness.Good old Rock.Status Quo is the best Band of the World.I Like it.

The best tangled up guitar leads in the business

Im a big quo fan one of my buddies in the army brought a cassette of status quo (never too late) with him from a weekend pass and I whas hooked on quo when I heard their songs.

Saw them back in the latests 90's in Salou (Cataluña Spain) in a hot july night on a nightclub parking shit. They play in front of an audience of 2000 persons, but they did'nt care for them, it was just playing for an audience of 200.00 souls. Rock and roll workers.!!!!!

superb live .

During the last 60yrs , whenever down play Quo n if I don*t smile I know I*ve died n someone has forgotten to tell me.

Always loved this song 100 miles an hour of pure rock

that fingerwork i love how they did this

I was 13 when this unbelievable gig happened it's a day I will never forget

I walked into wembley stadium just as this was kicking off, hairs on the back of the neck stuff

Lovely clean sound ! Great live band

мне кажется я знаю, почему сейчас не устраивают таких концертов, не кому на них выступать, нет равных тем кто выступал в 1985 году, и это реально показатель и культурного и творческого потенциала поколений. Увы деградация на лицо.

I was up at 5AM here in Los Angeles to see the start of Live Aid and this was my first real exposure to Status Quo. Interestingly I always heard how they big they were in Britain, but other than "Pictures of Matchstick Men" they failed to really catch on here in the States. In fact, they have often been compared to Grand Funk Railroad due to the fact that both bands played basic three chord rock and doubly interesting is that GFR was like Quo only in reverse in the fact that while they were huge here in America they never really caught on in Britain.

Status quo will never be forgotten, They just knew how to grab everyone

Want time machine so bad :(

Good old fashioned rock and roll. 3 chords and a cloud of dust! :-)

I remember bouncing up and down like a bloody lunatic when they played Caroline. I was stood next to the mixing desk tent in the middle. Quo looked about an inch high from where i was stood lol.

We miss you, Rick Parfitt

Can't believe Rick had a triple heart bypass 4 weeks before liveaid.

I remember watching this when I was 3 1/2. It was epic!

The number one rock an roll band in the land....

About 50 feet from the front to the right of rick seems I was there yesterday a day all of us will never forget still look for myself every time

When I was little this song was best of all-time 60s 70s

Loving Quo never seen them live but love their music.

13th of June 1985 - the day that the rock bands gave the power back to the people. Love will always triumph.

This is my favourite song with my name in it, especially after hearing sweet Caroline by Neil diamond a gazillion times😂

SOO JULY 13 1985 I MISSED AID BECAUSE I WAS 11 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME 😃😃

Proud to be British 🇬🇧

The ultimate Quo song

I liked Status Quo but they certainly weren't my favourite band...but on that day the right band with the right song started that day off....no nonsense Rock "N" Roll and HISTORY was made...

Escuchando en 2021!!!

Straight as Quo played this live to open the show at the Valley Gardens in Withernsea in front of 5,000 people about 10 years ago, A lot of people asked at the time why did we go on first when we should have of headlined the show? We said if its good enough for Quo to open at Live aid then its good enough for us to open at Withernsea, Fantastic song to start a show👍👍👍

Rick was, and always will be, the Alex Lifeson of British rock

Lucky enough to be there, and a great act to have opening, set a great atmosphere! ;-)

SUPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💙💙💙

Quo had the balls to open live Aid. Whilst the glitterati shit themselves thinking everything was going tits up. Long live the QUO!¡

poor rick ,cameraman bangs into him during the greatest blues intro ever - then his monitor isnt working so hes using his stack for a monitor- main camera ( cam 1 ) had an issue all day where lines ran over it even todays tech cant clean that up its a fuckin miracle it ever ha[ppened on the plus side ethiopia is having a benefit gig for us now !

As usual this band, Amazing!!.